The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-12-22

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village the presence Of such house would
keep the eyes and ears of the curious so
constantly alert that in time the place
would have to yield its secrets, perhaps by
force, for instances have been known Of rus
tics breaking into house in the name of the
law or Judge Lynch, simply to satisfy curl
osity that had g.Own too strong to be resisted.
But It was different on the western edge Of
Manitoba where 1.-THE Poplars' still resisted
curiosity after years Of impenetrability. I
had almost said that the house itself had
heart Of four sections Of rolling land, in
miniature valley; the trees and bushes on
whose sides hid It - completely - II they
had bean vast curtains Of green cloth. But
the extent Of the park around the house
would have served almost without the rank
natural greenery, especially a. all was In
closed by fence that was almost stockade
and that was adorned with the simple, but
forcible, warning, nTrespassers, Bewarel" It
was mot that the warning frightened the far
parted dwellers for the pioneers Of Canada
are not Of the stuff that Q threat or even an
armed man ffightens, but all were immersed
in the struggle to make living; and a. Fos-
dyck's household in "The Poplars" did not
intrude itself in their lives, they gave their
whole attention to their own affairs, and con-
tented themselves with adding strength to
the wings Of that gossip which had begun by
declaring Fosdyck an American fugitive, and
now credited him and his grown-up son
with being allies ofa band, or perhaps bands,
Of thieves who made his park q station and
rendezvous in their raids across the border,
some forty miles distant. It was even whis-
persd BY some that Fosdyck was counterfeit
ing American money and sending 1t to con-
federats in New York. What mattered It
that those Of the suspected thieves, who
showed themselves outside the park. looked
and acted like gentlemen, 70 long - they
were suspected Of being outlawsf What
mattered It that the boxes Fosdyck shipped
TO New York were labeled, "Birds-don't
delay" and were directed to taxidermist,
70 long % the neighbour agreed that
they contained counterfeit money in small
bulk hidden among the feathered game?
Itwas indeed mystesy that ''The Poplars"
held. In ten years neither the father nor
son, who kept house there without the aid Of
any woman except the malevolent-looking
Indian squaw at the gate. had ever spoken to
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